Ammonium and nitrite oxidation at nanomolar oxygen concentrations in oxygen minimum zone waters

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 38, 2016, Pages 10601-10606

  Bristow, Laura A ^a,e   Dalsgaard, Tage ^b   Tiano, Laura ^b   Mills, Daniel B ^a   Bertagnolli, Anthony D ^c   Wright, Jody J ^d   Hallam, Steven J ^d   Ulloa, Osvaldo ^c   Canfield, Donald E ^a   Revsbech, Niels Peter ^b   Thamdrup, Bo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ammonium oxidation; Kinetics; Nitrite oxidation; OMZ; Oxygen

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; NITRITE; OXYGEN; WATER;

ARTICLE; CHILE; DENITRIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; KINETICS; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MICHAELIS MENTEN KINETICS; NITRIFICATION; NITRITE OXIDIZER; NITROGEN CYCLING; OXYGEN AFFINITY; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84988945722     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1600359113     Document Type: Article

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